The Virginia election commission, which is responsible for certifying whether machines are fit to be used in elections, has decertified the Advanced Voting Solutions WINVote and for many very good reasons. Amongst the many security flaws in this product are:
Worse still, this machine has been used in actual elections and its lack of any logging or record-keeping means that we'll never know if its weaknesses were used to manipulate the outcome of an election. As a proof of concept, security researchers successfully demonstrated accessing the machine and manipulating the recorded vote counts.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Thursday April 16 2015, @07:28PM
Does the name of this thing give anyone else the creeps? It's like "buy this machine to WIN votes!" Seems to me like in a better world voting machines would be branded to promote their fairness and accuracy, and would avoid suggesting any connection with who actually wins or loses.